Tag Archives: Daniel Hopsicker

live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns

Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading

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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy

Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading

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citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies

After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading

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